Being open to personal development is what allows us to become the best versions of ourselves. It’s not something that can readily be achieved in a couple of hours, but rather a lifelong process built up from constantly assessing life goals and values, and acquiring skills that allow us to thrive bothmentally and physically.
Sometimes our journey with personal growth can be helped along with someone to show us the way. Personal development professionals use psychological and behavioral insight to guide you in the right direction, and help to sort through issues and preconceived limiting beliefs that you may not be ready to handle on your own, such as relationships with money, confidence building, your self-talk and so much more.
To help you on your journey we’ve compiled a list of 20 Australian Personal Development Experts and Coaches to work with in 2022!
EP7
Founded by George Helou, an exceptional coach with a wealth of experience, EP7 specialises in providing personal development frameworks, processes, and tools to facilitate behaviour change and habit reform. George has over 20,000 hours of coaching and group facilitation experience for individuals, executives, and organisations.
Most of this experience was created between Sydney and his Life Coach centre in Subiaco. During this time, he noticed a common weakness in the personal development industry and decided to do something about that. That weakness was the lack of consistency when it came to providing processes that ensure that the knowledge and principles being presented were being applied to everyday circumstances and cementing into habits.
George experienced how frustrating this was, so he spent a year researching and developing a holistic and evidence-based approach to address this major issue. In 2011, he launched the EP7 Life Coaching Program and its consistent success led to the creation of the EP7 Life Coach Academy in 2017. Since then, George adapted his EP7 system through the UFIND process for the mental health space.
The EP7 system uses neuroscientific principles, whole-brain function, and epigenetic knowledge as the foundation of its processes and tools. The deconstruct and reconstruct method of perception and emotional states allows for a universal application in any challenging situation and it consistently provides breakthrough results. This has now led to his current project with his business partners in Verve Education to develop an AI powered pocket therapist and life coaching app.
Wisdom of Wealth for Women
Founded by Christina Cabrera, a Certified Money Coach and Mindset Mentor to women with over 30 years of experience, Wisdom of Wealth for Women specialises in facilitating money mindset shifts for women. Christina considers herself a Money Life Coach and she is known as an inspiring mentor who approaches advocacy for wealth from a position of experience.
In other words, she practices what she preaches and supports women to free themselves from money worries. Christina’s approach is subtle yet powerful that creates lasting change in women’s behaviour around money. Wisdom of Wealth for Women offers unique services because she combines her impressive technical skills and financial knowledge with her love of money mindset mentoring.
When not working one on one with clients, Christina has created hands-on workshops and amazing group experiences that empower women to tap into their inner wisdom and make inspired choices about money. Wisdom of Wealth for Women arms women with the strategies that they need to create financial freedom for themselves immediately and consistently in the future.
During her time working as a financial planner and now as a money mindset coach, Christina met hundreds of women and heard hundreds of stories about money concerns. She understands that women’s approach to money is not only about understanding how it works, but also about their mindset, who they are, and how they feel and treat money. Money mindset coaching has to go hand in hand with money skills, and that’s what Wisdom of Wealth for Women offers.
Mojo Human Performance Institute
From a young age, high performance coach and mental performance specialist Michael Johnson, best known as Michael Mojo, always had a fascination with human behaviour and why people do what they do. As someone who started his journey in life with a variety of challenges, including undiagnosed ADHD, learning difficulties and depression that led to an attempt at suicide, he knows what it’s like to experience debilitating challenge and turn your life around.
Dedicated to helping people perform better in their personal and professional lives, Michael, through his company the Mojo Human Performance Institute, runs events and provides workshops, training, and seminars not just to the general public, but also to large corporate teams and everyone in between.
Combining world class knowledge, a straight shooter approach and a sense of humour Michael bridges the gap between advanced sciences, human behaviour, personal development, and mental performance to provide unmatched tools, methodologies, and teachings without the fluff, hyped up, high fiving strangers stigma that the personal development industry is sometimes known for. As a result, Michael has become a highly sought after personal coach to top performers including industry leaders, athletes, top rich listers and business teams as they know he can help them tap into their full potential.
He believes all growth requires a unique balance of inspiration, challenge and support and is proud to have a platform and community to enable people to grow and fulfil their potential.Michael is one of the leading personal development experts in Australia and has been featured alongside the likes of Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. John Demartini, Dr. Dave Logan, Grant Cardone, Gary Vee, and Barbara Corcoran.
Warida Wholistic Wellness
Specialising in personal development and healing through therapeutic connection, Warida Wholistic Wellness is a certified Indigenous social enterprise that operates in Australia and internationally. Founded by Bianca Stawiarski, they are passionate about empowering people to undertake their healing journey on their own terms.
When Bianca realised many people were living in pain, fear, anxiety, and darkness due to incongruent traditional therapy, she envisioned a sanctuary that would provide people with the necessary tools for healing, encouraging community change one person at a time while connecting with nature. That’s why Warida Wholistic Wellness was born, to empower people by giving them the tools and strategies necessary to live the life of their dreams.
Their sanctuary is located on Kaurna Country, which is in the northeast Adelaide Hills, and they help clients with animal-assisted therapy, trauma-informed counselling, transformational coaching, bush therapy, and more. They draw on their Indigenous and Ukrainian heritages and combine them with counselling and coaching to offer truly unique services.
They contribute to the personal development industry with empowering services and unique training programs, both online and in person. Many people have negative experiences in the mental health system and they are left feeling disempowered and devalued. Warida Wholistic Wellness offers something different and deeply valuable.
Pathrive
Founded by Howard Blackburn, an award-winning people leader, business mentor, and empowerment coach, Pathrive empowers people to find balance and evolve beyond the culture of busy. Before founding his company, Howard enjoyed a diverse professional journey where he built valuable relationships, learned vital lessons, and found success.
Though he thrived in the workplace, he had a different mentality when it came to his personal life. Howard wore a ‘busy’ badge of honour and made it his brand. The busier he was, the more valuable he felt. He soon realised, however, that he had become addicted to ‘busy’.
Howard researched and tested a great variety of methods for 5 years to learn not only how to manage busy, but overcome it. He became passionate about also teaching his teams to identify and harness the emotion behind being busy, leading many of them to perform at higher levels, both at work and at home. “People shouldn’t have to choose between one or the other, it’s possible to thrive both personally and professionally,” says Howard.
Pathrive helps clients experience a heightened belief in themselves and what they’re capable of so they can thrive in all areas of life. Howard is passionate about leading people to discover their pathway to balance and success and he brings the life-changing and affirming role of mentorship to those who need it most.
The moMENtum Revolution
Founded by Dr. Brett Dellar, The moMENtum Revolution was created by accident. Having suffered from depression for over 30 years, Brett understands what it’s like to suffer in silence and pretend everything is fine while burying one’s pain and trauma. He knew where all that struggle came from, but like most men, he refused to acknowledge or deal with it.
At the age of 50, he decided to do a life coaching course that changed him for the better. It allowed Brett to see his life from a different perspective and finally face his unresolved issues in a way that felt comfortable and normal. He diligently studied personal development, mental and emotional challenges, and how to overcome them.
After freeing himself from his past, pain, and trauma, he unlocked the energy to thrive and live an empowered and happy life. That’s what Brett wants to give to all men, which is why he started mentoring men. This snowballed into The moMENtum Revolution, which was born from a passion for helping other men free themselves from their emotional baggage and finally achieve the life they deserve.
The moMENtum Revolution offers workshops and online programs designed to help men with their challenges, traumas, and mental wellbeing. They run a 3-day live-in workshop in Western Australia and a 6-week online program for men who are ready to further their personal development. Additionally, they have a “WOMENtum” arm to support partners of men who are going through their transformation.
IKARO Consulting
Founded by Audrey Martin, a Coaching Consultant with 15 years of experience in the Organisational and Personal Development industry, IKARO Consulting helps individuals, teams, and businesses reach their full potential. They are on a mission to help clients transform to the best version of themselves so they can create the outcomes they want in life.
Audrey has worked with a wide range of clients in many different industries and in addition to her Leadership and Performance Coaching experience, she also practices Life Coaching with a holistic approach to Healing, Transformation, and Growth. She uses different coaching frameworks and tools, and specialises in performance, purpose, and wellbeing.
IKARO Consulting functions under the belief that Transformation and Self-Improvement begin with understanding your mindset and having the right tools to take daily action to reach goals and objectives. They help clients reach their full potential by providing an understanding of their thinking so they can disrupt limiting beliefs and unresourceful patterns.
The beauty of IKARO Consulting is that their services provide a blended delivery of techniques, tools, and frameworks. Additionally, they are dedicated to self-development practices and Audrey is always on the look for new learnings in the field to provide clients with additional benefits.
Beyond The Shell
Founded by Paul Anthony Cohen in 2017, Beyond The Shell provides a wide range of coaching services that are based on strong values, passion for helping others, and ethics. Four years ago, Paul set out to formalise his coaching passion and expertise by starting a Certificate IV in Life Coaching from the Life Coaching Institute. Unfortunately, tragedy struck his family and he lost his older sister (who was his greatest inspiration and believer), so he put the course on hold. The turtle logo of Beyond The Shell was derived from my sister’s love of turtles.
He still held onto his dream of completing the course and founding his own company. Over the past 40 years, he has experienced unhealthy thoughts, actions and life barriers, so he wants to help clients understand how these things impact them and how to overcome them. Paul has leveraged his life experience to enhance his abilities and take a holistic view of client’s needs to supplement his coaching style and skills.
Paul worked as a medical scientist for 20 years and he has integrated his science and medical background into his coaching philosophy. Though his approach is holistic, it’s largely based on scientific and medical evidence. His expertise is unique and he has extensive life experience.
Beyond the Shell offers coaching services such as general life coaching, career choice, change and progression, executive leadership, workplace individual or team performance and communication, business process and change management, and life cycle coaching. Paul can also facilitate the enhancement of Emotional Intelligence, trust, teamwork, and engagement using the “FISH!” philosophy.
Centre for Life Therapies
Sonya Furlong is an outstanding life coach and Australia’s No. 1 NLP trainer for women. Sonya created the Centre for Life Therapies to help improve the lives of thousands of clients by providing them with the healing tools of life coaching, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), therapy, hypnosis, and meditation.
Her services are aimed at women who want to heal their past and move confidently towards the future they desire. Based on this philosophy, Centre for Life Therapies helps women who are going through difficult life transitions. Whether that’s career dissatisfaction, disconnected relationships, empty nest, retirement, loss, or even just the struggle to take their personal or professional life to the next level.
At the beginning of her career, Sonya spent 15 years in the film and television industry. She won many awards, including the Australian Academy Award for a film she produced called “The Kiss.” However, she only found fulfilment and meaning when she started helping people in their personal development journey.
Centre for Life Therapies offers a unique 6-month “Business Unbound Success Program” for women, that combines group coaching, private sessions, and a 7-day NLP immersion. Business Unbound has evolved into a beautiful community of women nationally who continue to grow with ongoing support and inspiration.
With all that going on, it’s amazing that Sonya somehow still makes time to do a free strategy call with each new client. She says, “I prioritise those free strategy calls because I love seeing the joy and hope people feel when they experience a breakthrough in that first call!”
Dr. Kim Brown
Founded by Kim Brown, Dr. Kim Brown is an NLP training company that offers internationally recognised certification courses in NLP, Time Line Therapy®, and Hypnosis. Kim has been recognised in the Top 10 Female Coaches in Australia and Top 1% Mindset Coach in Australia, so she is honoured to serve people through online live and interactive courses.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is recognised around the world as the tools and techniques for creating success. Dr. Kim Brown is committed to empowering people to thrive in all aspects of life, not just financially, but also physically and emotionally, through NLP. This female-led team brings heart, soul, and compassion into the courses and they pride themselves on getting the most out of their students so they can transform their lives to the best of their abilities.
The team behind Dr. Kim Brown helps people break free of self-sabotaging beliefs so they can choose the life they want instead of staying in their programmed lanes. They provide clients with skills, strategies, and belief changes so they can change forever. It’s their mission to ensure that everyone is nurtured, nudged in the right direction, and given permission to live their best lives.
Quality Mind Global
Founded by CEO Richard Maloney, Quality Mind Global is an international mental wellness training & license business with over a thousand clients in 50+ countries. They specialise in reprogramming people’s minds via their systemised IP and technology so they can maximise their raw potential and achieve greater success, wealth, health, and happiness.
Richard has been a headline speaker at many industry conferences and events in 15 countries, he is the co-founded of Blokes United, a Facebook support group for men with 24,000 members, and he is the author of “Injury-Free: Mental Training For Elite Athletes”, “The Minds of Winning Teams: Creating Team Success Through Engagement & Culture”, and “Stress-Free: How To Thrive Under Pressure In Unprecedented Times.”
Quality Mind Global is the fastest-growing mental wellbeing training and licensing company on earth and they provide powerful, affordable, and universally accessible mental wellness solutions for the B2B and B2C markets of over 50 countries. They define mental wellness as “an internal resource that helps us think, feel, connect and function; an active process that helps us build resilience, grow and flourish.”
Their ultimate purpose as a company is to license, train and equip thousands of Mind Mentors across their globe so they can awaken people to their true potential and enable them to build the lives of their dreams. Quality Mind Global is the antidote to stress, loneliness, and burnout with their Personal Activation System™ and mobile app that provides a lot more than meditation.
The HR Experts International
Founded by CEO Vanessa Giannos, The HR Experts International is Australia’s leading HR, Coaching & Training Service for start-ups, medium businesses, and corporates. Vanessa has over 25 years of international experience and is a renowned Behavioural, Executive, Leadership, and Business expert. She has helped thousands of professionals and business leaders overcome challenges and improve their health and wellbeing through behavioural and leadership coaching.
Vanessa leverages her own experience with PTSD, a near-death event, and chronic illness and her wealth of knowledge to help clients overcome major hurdles. She combines her backgrounds in Neuroscience, Behavioural Psychology, HR, Leadership, Coaching, Business Strategy and Change Management to facilitate learning and insight so clients can become more agile, adaptive, and resilient.
The HR Experts International team makes use of cutting-edge techniques and methodologies to create unique and powerful programs. This is how they facilitate change and transform business operations to accelerate growth. Some of the best assessment tools they deploy are DiSC, MBTI, Belbin, Leadership Circle Profiling, 360 Profiling, and EQ.
They specialise in helping business owners and leaders find the solutions they need so they can scale their business with confidence and pride. The HR Experts International works with clients in Australia, New Zealand, Asia-Pacific, United Kingdom, the US and Canada. They are a dynamic, commercially focused consultancy agency that focuses on competitive strategy, organisational design, culture and values, leadership and organisation development, and much more.
Patrick Farnan Coaching
Founded by Patrick Farnan, Patrick Farnan Coaching is helping dissatisfied achievers reset and become highly effective and efficient leaders in their careers and businesses. Patrick brings a fresh and evolving energy to the table to help achievers navigate their time poor and high pressure environments that they face.
His approach is focused on mindset because the miscommunication between what people want to do, and what they’re actually doing is something that is often out of alignment. Patrick Farnan Coaching offers proven coaching techniques that support the shifts required to change the game, as well as offering strategies developed through completing ultra-endurance events such as Ironman, Multiple Ultra Marathons, and more.
At Patrick Farnan Coaching they pride themselves on building relationships with clients through humour and full transparency. This allows them to get to the core of a client’s issues and break through what’s holding them back so they can achieve the success they’re aiming for.
Patrick’s coaching services are aimed for those who want to achieve great things but don’t have the time or belief within themselves to make them happen. He has developed the skills and experience to provide clients with the guidance they need to make the internal changes and reach the next level, while letting go of limiting beliefs and getting to the heart of their issues so they can be resolved for good
Lorraine Nilon
Lorraine Nilon is an Australian author, Soul Intuitive®, Emotional, and Spiritual mentor. She is also the founder of Insight & Awareness and she has over 20 years of experience as a facilitator for Self-Reflective and Spiritual Growth workshops, and Personal Development and Emotional Well-Being private sessions. Her natural ability and heightened awareness allows her to read soul energy and help people through the obstacles produced by emotional baggage.
Lorraine is an expert at understanding and guiding people to embrace their soul purpose of self-discovery and heal from their emotional traps. Her mission is to help clients reach emotional freedom and spiritual well-being by teaching them to improve their self-awareness and self-reflective skills. This will allow them to access their own wisdom, embrace self-acceptance, and ignite their inner passions.
Emotional baggage takes many forms and they are all disruptive and detrimental to our well-being and success. Lorraine helps clients address and deal with this in a way that’s not scary so they can resolve it and let it go. She works from compassion and unconditional love, with an approach that’s supportive and non-judgemental. Her services fill in the gaps when people feel stuck and unable to understand themselves, so they can reveal their truth and lead more balanced lives.
Lorraine’s latest release: Award winning – Spirituality, Evolution & Awakened Consciousness: Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth
Gary Fahey founded Strong Men’d to provide mental strength and conditioning services based around his “Lived It, Learned It, and Earned It” principle, meaning that all their strategies and systems have been actively tested and successfully deployed to build discipline, resilience, and respect within to take you from where you are now to where you want to be. Strong Men’d doesn’t offer theory or therapy, they offer practical applications that lead to results.
Gary is a mental strength and conditioning coach, highly sought-after speaker, bestselling author and an Ambassador for the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association. He is known for his brutally honest approach, something he forged over 18 years with the Australian Federal Police, where he led the Australian Prime Minister’s Personal Protection Team and managed the Office of Commissioner.
Based on his own deep, dark, and destructive battle with mental health and a combination of formal and informal education, coaching, and mentoring, he has developed his own practical systems and structures for success. That’s exactly what he offers through Strong Men’d where he has led many to reach their goals.
Strong Men’d services are action-oriented, strategically focused, results-driven, and highly effective. They work with high-performing, high profile, and high-pressure individuals, teams, and companies to help them find fulfillment. Every single system, program, and strategy follows their “Tested on Me” method, so they definitely practice what they preach.
Aware Psychology & Coaching
Michal Baghlani is an integrative psychologist and wellbeing/resilience coach and the founder of Aware Psychology & Coaching. She has a special interest in stress, anxiety, and trauma management. Her approach to intervention is based on a combination of neuroscience, psychology, lifestyle, and body approaches, and she is focused on helping clients transition towards wellness by helping them address the root of their issues.
In addition to psychological intervention, Michal provides life coaching services to help clients overcome roadblocks, identify their purpose and establish the means to reach their goals.
Through Aware Psychology & Coaching, Michal assists and educates her clients on why they feel, think, or behave as they do so they can understand how to make a difference in their lives and feel empowered to self-manage and move forward. When it comes to self-development, there’s no one size fits all approach, however similarities do lie at the core of human behaviour. Michal helps her clients understand this core and works with them to reach their goals, whether that’s improving their mental health, general wellbeing or establishing personal milestones.
As an integrative psychologist and coach, Michal is also a Microba Informed Practitioner for gut biome assessments, a Hardy Nutritionals Informed Practitioner for micronutrient supplementation, and a Nutripath Informed Practitioner for functional pathology testing. This allows her to provide a holistic approach to achieve optimal mental and overall health.
Michal provides in-person consultations in her rooms in Sydney or Bowral and is also available for video consultations. If you are not a fan of in-person sessions and would prefer to learn at your own pace from the comfort of home, you may like to consider her online coaching program complete with the app, video tutorials, over 800 activities and guidance by Michal. Alternatively, you can navigate your own way and test your resilience here without the assistance of Michal.
Shane Warren & Associates
Shane Warren is a registered psychotherapist, certified clinical supervisor, practicing hypnotherapist, and practicing coach who founded Shane Warren & Associates. Shane follows a holistic approach to psychotherapy as a mental health fitness coach across the Asia Pacific region.
He specialises in the field of emotional resilience and he applies it to his work as a counselor, coach, and consultant for clients across the globe. Shane’s practice motto is changing lives through simple solutions and that’s what he strives to achieve with each and every client.
Shane works from a deeply personal motive to empower others so they become the best version of themselves. He is passionate about his work and he offers global providers employee welfare strategies through Shane Warren & Associates. Clients receive a human resources leadership and organisational development framework that’s unique to individual companies and organisations.
Shane Warren & Associations provides a flexible and unique approach because they understand that one size does not fit all. Every client is different and they make sure they provide solutions that are tailored to their needs and circumstances.
Mindstate Coaching
Tania Cicmil has been in business since she was 19, which is where her passion for personal development started. She is passionate about using the tools she has learned to build her business and helping others do the same. When she decided to focus on her career as a personal development coach in 2018, she founded Mindstate Coaching, and she became obsessed with human potential and transformation.
A year later, she started working on an online program to reach more people and by 2020, the Rich Mother Mindset program was created. It is unique in every single way and it’s meant to help ambitious people who want more out of themselves and out of life, but don’t really know how to achieve their goals. The program is online and personally run by Tania, which is why it works so well.
This 24-week program consists of 4 phases, which can be done in one go or one at a time, depending on the clients individual needs and desires. It is totally customised for the client to get the maximum benefit out of the coaching experience. It’s completely up to the individual and how fast they want to transform. Tania puts the power in her client’s hands because they are the ones doing the work; the program is just the template and they have to fill it out, along with Tania’s coaching they’ll get a blueprint that’s entirely their own, based on their unique vision.
Twenty2 Collective
Founded by Marcus Ward, an experienced Coach, Business Agility Consultant, Trainer, and Facilitator of Lean, Agile, and Organisational Change, Twenty2 Collective enables organisations of all sizes to achieve high performance with lean, agile, and collaborative techniques. They put people at the centre of everything and they provide successful transformations because their advisors listen and guide clients through their journey.
Twenty2 Collective supports and empowers individuals, teams and organisations to embrace new ways of working by offering solutions that are designed to help clients visualise their goals and rapidly achieve them. Leveraging several innovative education, motivation, and application techniques to support clients and partners embrace change, they provide the tools needed to improve their individual or organisation performance so they can achieve success.
As the name suggests, Twenty2 Collective uses a collective approach to share knowledge, identify opportunities, solve challenges and ensure customers have access to specialist expertise in an ecosystem model. They create unique online and in-person experiences for leaders and team, putting people before process and on focussing on coaching over commanding, to help guide organisations through transformation success.
Embracing their purpose of achieving high performance and happiness, Twenty2 Collective offers a unique methodology that includes visual and haptic techniques such as drawing, LEGO Serious Play, and Playmobil to unlock creativity and promote innovation within teams and organisations. They also hold unique customer insights and data on what creates high performance.
